THE PAY OF EDITORS. The Salary Received by Some Prominent Journalists.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 50, 17 May 1884, Page 5

THE PAY OF EDITORS. The Salary Received by Some Prominent Journalists.

When Mr Delano undertook the editorial charge of the London " Times " he was paid L 4,000. Mr Buckle, the new editor of that journal, a young man of thirty, without any previous experience, commences his official term on an annual stipend of L 5,000. MiEdward Lawson, the editor of the London "Telegraph," is its owner, and so is not on a salary, but the two senior editors of that journal, Mr Edward Arnold and Mr J. M. Le-Suge, receive each a salary of L 5,000. The "Standard, "which is next in circulation of the great London dailies to the "Telegraph," does not pay as well as its mighty rival, for its editor, Mr Mudford, gets only L 3.000 per annum. The " Daily News," the organ of English Liberals and the third in circulation ot the English metropolitan journals, pays to its editor the extremely comfortable yearly salary of L 4,000. The editor of the Manchester " Guardian," easily the most powerful and inlluential country newspaper (meaning outside of London) in England, pays its chief editor L 3,000, and two members of its staff, who write only tour articles a week, L 1,500. Mr Stead, the editor of the "Pall Mall Gazette," gets L2,0Q0, and the leading writer of that journal, Mr Milner, is paid at the rate of L 1,600 yearly. He is a young man, and amuses himself with literary work, which he need not do if he does not care to, as he possesses an independent income from a very large fortune. Some of the weeklies of London pay very handsomely. Mr Hutton, who is at the head of the " Spectator," get 3 L 2.000. Mr Pollock, of the "Saturday Review, " receives the same sum as his confret a oi the " Spectator," and Mr Frederick Greenwood, who steers the "St. James Gazette" through the tortuous mazes of English politics, gets for doing it LSOO, while Mr F. C. Burnand, who not only edits " Punch," but writes its sharp Parliamentary criticisms, receives L3,01>0 a-year for his double duty. Besides the regular staff of the great dailies there are always attached to each of them several outside contributors, who have certain special lines of information. For example : Mr Charles Marvin, who knows more about Central Asia and the Turcoman tribes in the Merv Oasis than anybody else in England since the death of poor Donovan, writes the articles which have lately appeared in the London "Times" oi» this subject. Just now England wants to know all about that curious region, as Uussia is pushing its way to India by the Merv route, and therefore Mr Marvin's years of gathered knowledge can now be utilised to his very great pecuniary advantage. Mr Archibald Forbes's slashing articles on the Egyptian war in "the journal of the largest liberal circulation in the world," as the "News" proudly de)J nominates itself, are admirable in the matter of criticism, although he has no personal knowledge of the region in which General Graham's troops are meeting with such an obstinate resistance.

Mr Wm. Ferguson, C.E., M.1.C.E., has been appointed Engineer and Chief Executive Officer to. Wellington Harbour Board,